The earliest parish records located for this family come from Burford St Mary and Coreley St Peter in Shropshire. However, the evidence of Wills suggest the family also had a very early presence in Tenbury in the adjoining county of Worcestershire.
The parish register for Tenbury St Mary the Virgin is in very poor condition between 1553-1661 and much of it is illegible. Likewise there is a gap in the early Coreley registers 1624-1696 although the Bishops Transscripts from 1660 to some extent fill this gap.
For this reason many baptisms, marriages and burials relating to this family have been lost and the construction of their early family history is based largely on the evidence of Wills. Fortunately the family had both real and/or personal estate from at least the mid fifteenth century that necessitated the leaving of a Will. The earliest STARY wills located are Richard Stary of Tenbury [1445], John Stare of The Hem, Burford [1537-1539] and Thomas Starie of Burford [1545].
The birth dates stated in the early part of the Starie, Burford family tree should therefore be treated as only approximations.
The earliest form of the surname appears to be STARY or STAREY. However, the form of the surname STARIE was used as early as 1590 and the surname was often spelt this way from the early 1700s although all forms continue into modern times. For the sake of consistency, the form STARIE has been used through this family tree. The forms STARIE, STAREY, STARRY and STARREY were more consistently adopted by various families from the 1700s and all forms continue into modern times. In the 1881 UK census the most common form was STAREY [48], followed by STARY [9], STARRIE [6], STARRY [5], STARIE [4] and STARREY [1] [Source: Family Search]
The STARY/STAREY/STARIE family had a very early connection to a farm called The Hemm near Tilsop in Shropshire. It apparently stayed in the family until the death of John Starie, the son of Joseph Haydon Starie, in 1928. Coreley was the closest church to The Hemm and would have been the local parish church for many of the early family. Tilsop lies about half way between Nash and Coreley and the frequently mentioned Redford is less than a mile of Tilsop. It is only 2 miles from Coreley to Nash. The Hemm farm still exists today. Coreley to Burford is about 4 miles. It is about 4 and a half miles from Coreley to Tenbury. No family property records have been located.